[pjc50]

They're only directing their hostility at the ""other"". All this shittiness doesn't affect their straight white male devs (the majority), so they can function just fine.

Game devs tend to be gamers who've reached adulthood but would like to stay within the gaming culture. That means they're either acclimatized to or actively enjoy the shittiness.

All this stuff used to be "standard business culture" in the West, and the campaign against it has been a long road since women got the vote.

[meheleventyone]

I’m not sure I’d characterise game developers quite that way but Riot’s hiring practices almost certainly contributed towards hiring that subset of developers. They require you to be a hardcore gamer and regular League player. Amongst other things this is quite a good filter to find a bunch of toxic employees.

[amarant]

>They're only directing their hostility at the ""other"". All this shittiness doesn't affect their straight white male devs (the majority), so they can function just fine.

I don't think that's entirely true. even if they use sexual and racial slurs, it's apparent from the article that they are used as insults directed at each other. I'm a white hetero male developer (not game-dev though) myself, and I'm not sure I'd be able to work in a environment such as the one described for too long. I mean it'd certainly be easier for me, given my biological "fitting in" with the rest of the group. I'd still have a hard time in such a culture.

[mrguyorama]

They aren't calling their fellow white males "crackers". By using such slang intended as an insult, there is an implication that the "other" is "lesser"

[ethbro]

Yelling obscenities against minorities, directed at those of your own group seems like it would strongly reinforce an "Us" / "Them" differentiation.

What's more bonding than shared mockery of the other?